INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD ISSN: 2455-0620 Volume - 6, Issue - 10, Oct – 2020 Monthly, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed, Indexed Journal with IC Value: 86.87 Impact Factor: 6.719 Received Date: 26/09/2020 Acceptance Date: 10/10/2020 Publication Date: 31/10/2020 A case study of Padma Shri, Arjun awardee Prashanti Singh: International Basketball Player 1 Tushar Dhar Shukla, 2 Dr. Usha Tiwari , 3 Dr. Dhirendra Tiwari 1 Research Scholar – Banasthali Vidyapeeth, 2 Associate Professor – CUSB, Gaya, 3 Assistant Director- BHU Physical Education Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Tonk, Rajasthan, India Email – 1
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[email protected] Abstract: The purpose of the study was to highlights the contribution and achievements of Padam Shri, Arjun Awardee and the Captain of Indian Basketball team, Prashanti Singh towards the promotion of sports in the country and her socio-economic conditions, cultural background. The data for investigation were derived from Personal Records, Official Records, Interview, Pictorial Records and Published Records. Survey Techniques were used to obtain responses and reactions about Arjun Awardee, Prashanti Singh from selected eminent sports persons, contemporaries, coaches And physical educationists from all over the country through opinion rating Questionnaire to get desired information. Prashanti Singh has usually played as shooting guard in India National Basketball team. Just because of the hard work& commitment, She participated in several main global platforms such as "Commonwealth games 2006, Asian games 2010 and 2014 as captains and have considered several gold medals in the 2005 Phuket Regional Invitational Basketball World Cup, South Asian beach games gold medal in Sri Lanka 2011, the 2009 Asian Indoor Games silver medal in Vietnam (captain), In 2010 Guangzhou, Ms Prashanti, Captain of the Indian Basketball at the 16th Asian games, considered for the participation in the Asian Games after 28 years.